Eddie Vedder quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Eddie Vedder

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I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better.

Society, you're a crazy breed.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

Are you woman enough to be my man?

Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Cannot find the comfort in this world.

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

Darkness comes in waves ... tell me, why invite it to stay?

I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down ...

I'm really high ... I mean the altitude of course.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

It's a fragile thing,this life we lead if I think too much I can get overwhelmed by the grace by which live our lives with death over our shoulder.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence ...

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed

Your pot laws are great! But your gun laws are even better!

Delight, Delight, Delight ... in our youth.

I don't wanna think, I wanna FEEL.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

He who forgets will be destined to remember ...

That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for ...

The love received is the love that is saved.

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

It's an art to live with pain ... mix the light into gray.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

I would do anything to be around music.
You don't even have to pay me.

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough ...

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

It's not a bad time to be me.

If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?